www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Frau Merkelhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/frau-merkel/?utm_medium=RSS2007-06-14T00:00:00-04:00The clowns and the chancellor2007-06-14T00:00:00-04:00http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/14/the-clowns-and-the-chancellor/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p> BERLIN. -- The G-8 summit brought in the clowns, and now the demonstrators are gone, with their painted sardonic smiles of greasepaint only a mocking memory. The jester foes of globalization aspired to apply the needle to deflate Chancellor Angela Merkel's moment of triumph along a Baltic coastline lined ...